Guides
Written to answer the question, including when the answer is that you do not need us. Everything here is specific to Hawaii, because most of what is published about landscape edging was written for a climate that freezes and does not apply to your yard.
Concrete curbing vs rock borders, which most Oahu yards actually need
On the mainland curbing competes with plastic edging. On Oahu it competes with lava rock and blue rock, and the honest answer is that most yards want both.
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Mulch against your foundation, and the termite problem nobody mentions
Mulch does not attract termites from across the neighborhood. What it does is build the exact conditions they need, right where your house meets the ground.
Read it →Concrete curbing vs plastic edging: the twenty-five year math
Plastic edging costs a fraction of concrete curbing upfront. Run both over twenty-five years, including replacements, and the answer is less obvious than it looks.
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Does concrete curbing crack in Hawaii?
The failure every national article warns about is frost heave, which cannot happen on Oahu. What genuinely causes curbing to fail here, and what prevents it.
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How to keep grass out of your flower beds in Hawaii
Whether a border stops grass invading your beds depends entirely on which grass you have. St. Augustine and paspalum, yes. Bermuda, not completely.
Read it →Why your mulch keeps washing out, and what actually stops it
Mulch washing onto the lawn every time it rains is a containment problem, not a mulch problem. What actually works on Oahu, ranked by cost and lifespan.
Read it →More coming. We publish when there is something worth saying, not on a content schedule. A thin page written to catch a search helps nobody and we would rather not have any.
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